Peek-A-Boo Lounge of Bradenton, Inc. and M.S. Entertainment, Inc. d/b/a Temptations II (“the Adult Lounges”), two adult dancing establishments, appeal the District Court’s grant of summary judgment to Manatee County, Florida (“the County”), upholding the constitutionality of two County ordinances that regulate adult dancing establishments and public nudity. The Adult Lounges argue that Ordinance 98-46, which imposes requirements on the physical layout of adult dancing establishments and allows the County Sheriff to search such premises without a warrant, and Ordinance 99-18, a general public nudity statute, violate their First, Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. In addition, the Adult Lounges contend that both ordinances impair their previously approved settlement agreement with the County and thus violate the Contract Clause, U.S. Const. Art. I, § 10, cl. 1. Finally, the Adult Lounges maintain that Ordinance 99-18 is both preempted by, and inconsistent with, Florida state law.
I. BACKGROUND
In 1987, Manatee County adopted Ordinance 87-07, an “Adult Entertainment Code,” which made the locations of Appel *1253 lants’ existing businesses, the County’s only two licensed adult dancing facilities, nonconforming. Appellants filed suit in federal court challenging the constitutionality of the ordinance. The parties settled the lawsuit on April 11, 1989, with an agreement that allowed the Adult Lounges to continue to provide adult entertainment. The settlement effectuated a permanent injunction that enjoined the County from enforcing Ordinance 87-07 against the Adult Lounges for the current use of their properties.
Almost ten years later, on November 24, 1998, the Manatee County Board of County Commissioners (“the Board”) enacted a similar ordinance, Ordinance 98-46, which amended the County’s Adult Entertainment Code, Chapter 2-2.5-59 of the Manatee County Code of Laws, by providing specific physical requirements for premises used as adult dancing establishments, and which again made Appellants’ businesses nonconforming. 1
Four months later, Manatee County adopted “Public Nudity Ordinance” 99-18, which made it unlawful “to knowingly, intentionally, or recklessly appear, or cause another Person to appear, Nude in a Public Place.” Although Ordinance 99-18 was not exclusively directed toward adult entertainment establishments, its stated aim was, inter alia, to prevent “incidents of prostitution, sexual assaults and batteries, [and] other criminal activity” that the County found to be associated with “the mere appearance of nude persons in public places.” The ordinance identified “public places” to include “streets, sidewalks, parks, beaches, [and] business and commercial establishments.” Ordinance 99-18 also defined “nudity” broadly, to include *1254 the wearing of any opaque swimsuit or lingerie covering less than one-third of the buttocks or one-fourth of the female breast. 2 Further, the ordinance specifically prohibited erotic dancers and others from appearing in public wearing “G-strings, T-backs, dental floss, and thongs.”
In passing Ordinance 99-18, the Board rejected the recommendation by the Manatee County Public Planning Commission that the ordinance “shall not apply to duly licensed adult entertainment establishments” like the Adult Lounges. However, in order to address possible overbreadth and other constitutional problems, the Board acknowledged in the ordinance’s preamble that “there may be instances where appearing Nude in a Public Place may be expressive conduct incidental to and a necessary part of the freedom of expression that is protected by United States or Florida constitutional provisions.” The ordinance also exempted from its coverage any “bona fide live communication, demonstration, or performance ... [that] is not a guise or pretense utilized to exploit nudity for profit or commercial gain.”
One month before the two ordinances were to take effect, the Adult Lounges *1255 filed a complaint in the United States District Court, Middle District of Florida, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, 3 alleging that the ordinances were unconstitutional. Specifically, the Adult Lounges argued that both ordinances were overbroad, were adopted on the basis of an improper predicate, failed to advance any legitimate governmental interest, constituted an invalid taking, and impaired the County’s contractual obligations under the 1989 settlement; that Ordinance 99-18 was unconstitutionally vague; .and that Ordinance 98-46 violated both the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition of warrantless searches and the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection. The Adult Lounges also included claims for several alleged violations of Florida law.
On January 11, 2001, having submitted to the District Court a record of the evidence it relied on when enacting the ordinances, the County moved for summary judgment. The Adult Lounges opposed this motion and submitted affidavits and expert studies contesting the County’s findings concerning the negative effects caused by its businesses on the surrounding community. The District Court granted the County’s motion for summary judgment, and this appeal followed.
II. STANDARD OF REVIEW
We review the District Court’s grant of final summary judgment
de novo,
viewing the record and drawing all reasonable inferences in the light most favorable to the non-moving party.
See Patton v. Triad Guar. Ins. Corp.,
III. DISCUSSION
A. Summary of Supreme Court’s “Secondary Effects’’ Jurisprudence
This case involves two ordinances, a zoning ordinance and a general public nudity ordinance, both of which are alleged to violate Appellants’ First Amendment rights to freedom of expression. To guide our analysis, we begin with a comprehensive summary of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence in this area. The discussion is extensive, in part because of the large number of no-clear-majority decisions of the Court in cases of this type. Moreover, our task is complicated because although the Court has formulated distinct standards for evaluating the two kinds of regulation enacted by the County in this case— zoning ordinances and public nudity ordinances — the Court also has sometimes collapsed the two categories into a single, overarching category of regulatory action targeting the negative “secondary effects” of non-obscene adult entertainment and drawn conclusions about this single category.
See generally City of Los Angeles v. Alameda Books,
1. California v. LaRue and Doran v. Salem Inn
The Supreme Court first recognized the existence of First Amendment freedom of expression rights in the adult entertainment context in
California v. LaRue,
However, in
Doran v. Salem Inn,
*1257 2. Young v. American Mini-Theatres
In
Young v. American Mini Theatres,
The plurality opinion, written by Justice Stevens, held that the sexually explicit expression being regulated by the ordinance, though not altogether unprotected, was of lower value than core, political speech.
See Young,
Justice Powell, who provided the fifth vote necessary to sustain the ordinance, rejected the plurality’s view “that nonob-scene, erotic materials may be treated differently under [the] First Amendment.”
Id.
at 73 n. 1,
Unlike the four dissenters, who found the Detroit zoning ordinance to be con
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tent-based, and thus discerned in the Court’s holding a “drastic departure from established principles of First Amendment law,”
id.
at 84,
3. Schad v. Mount Ephraim
This concept was not without limits, however, as the Court’s next encounter with adult entertainment,
Schad v. Borough of Mount Ephraim,
4. Renton v. Playtime Theatres, Inc.
In
Renton v. Playtime Theatres, Inc.,
The Court’s analysis involved three steps. First, the Court found that since the
Renton
ordinance did not ban adult theaters altogether but merely regulated where they could be located, the ordinance was properly analyzed as a time, place and manner regulation.
Id.
at 46,
5. Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc.
The Court examined the constitutionality of restrictions on adult entertainment again in
Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc.,
Chief Justice Rehnquist, joined by Justices O’Connor and Kennedy, recognized that the Court’s previous decisions in
LaRue, Doran,
and
Schad
implied that nude dancing was “expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment.”
Id.
at 565,
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Justice Scalia and Justice Souter each wrote separately, concurring in the judgment of the Court but upholding the Indiana statute on different grounds from each other and from the plurality. Justice Scalia found that the statute withstood constitutional challenge, not because it survived the
O’Brien
test, but because “as a general law regulating conduct and not specifically directed at expression, it is not subject to First Amendment scrutiny at all.”
Id.
By contrast, Justice Souter agreed with the plurality that nude dancing was expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment and appropriately analyzed under
O’Brien.
However, he parted company with them over how to understand and apply
O’Brien’s
second requirement that government regulation of expressive conduct further important or substantial government interests. According to Justice Souter, these interests need not be limited to “protecting societal order and morality,” as the plurality argued. Instead, like the zoning cases, they should be interpreted to include “the State’s substantial interest in combating the secondary effects of adult entertainment establishments ... [such as] prostitution, sexual assault, and other criminal activity.”
Id.
at 582-83,
Because Justice Souter provided the narrowest grounds for the judgment of the Court in
Barnes,
his concurrence constitutes the holding of that case under the rule of
Marks v. United States
for interpreting fragmented Supreme
Court
decisions.
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Hence his opinion demands close scrutiny. In identifying secondary effects as an appropriate basis for upholding the Indiana statute, Justice Souter relied heavily on the Supreme Court’s decisions in
Renton
and
Young.
Though neither of these cases involved nude dancing, Justice Souter reasoned that because nude dancing and the forms of adult entertainment at issue in
Young
and
Renton
were “plainly of the same character,” they were “likely to produce the same pernicious effects.”
Barnes,
6. City of Erie v. Pap’s AM.
The Court revisited the issue of nude dancing in
City of Erie v. Pap’s A.M.,
In terms of demonstrating that such secondary effects pose a threat, the city need not “conduct new studies or produce evidence independent of that already generated by other cities” to demonstrate the problem of secondary effects, “so long as whatever evidence the city relies upon is reasonably believed to be relevant to the problem that the city addresses.” [Renton] Because the nude dancing at Kandyland is of the same character as the adult entertainment at issue in Renton, Young ... [and] LaRue, it was reasonable for Erie to conclude that such nude dancing was likely to produce the same secondary effects. And Erie could reasonably rely on the evidentiary foundation set forth in Renton and [Young] to the effect that secondary effects are caused by the presence of even one adult entertainment establishment in a given neighborhood. In fact, Erie expressly relied on Barms and its discussion of secondary effects, including its reference to Ren-ton and [Young].... [T]he evidentiary standard described in Renton controls here, and Erie meets that standard.
Id.
at 296-97,
Justice Scalia, joined by Justice Thomas, agreed that Erie’s ordinance was constitutional, but did so on an entirely different basis. Reiterating the view he expressed in
Barnes,
Justice Scalia deemed the ordinance to be a total ban on public nudity, which was aimed at conduct, not expression, and thus was not subject to First Amendment scrutiny at all.
Id.
at 307-08,
7. City of Los Angeles v. Alameda Books, Inc.
The Court’s most recent case involving adult entertainment was
City of Los Angeles v. Alameda Books, Inc.,
The narrow question presented in
Alameda Books
was the appropriate standard “for determining whether an ordinance serves a substantial government interest under
Renton.”
... that a municipality can get away with shoddy data or reasoning. The municipality’s evidence must fairly support the municipality’s rationale for its *1263 ordinance. If plaintiffs fail to cast direct doubt on this rationale, either by demonstrating that the municipality’s evidence does not support its rationale or by furnishing evidence that disputes the municipality’s factual findings, the municipality meets the standard set forth in Renton. If plaintiffs succeed in casting doubt on a municipality’s rationale in either manner, the burden shifts back to the municipality to supplement the record with evidence renewing support for a theory that justifies its ordinance.
Id. at 1736. 12
Justice Kennedy concurred in the judgment of the Court but wrote separately because he agreed with the dissent that the Los Angeles ordinance was not content-neutral, and because he feared that the plurality opinion “might constitute a subtle expansion” of Renton. Id. at 1739. On the issue of content-neutrality, the O’Connor plurality took the position that the Court should not decide whether the Los Angeles ordinance was content-neutral since the Ninth Circuit had not yet passed on the matter. Id. at 1737. Justice Kennedy disagreed, joining the four dissenters in characterizing the application of the content-neutral label to secondary effects ordinances like Los Angeles’ as a “fiction,” because “whether a statute is content neutral or content based is something that can be determined on the face of it; if the statute describes speech by content then it is content based.... These ordinances are content based and we should call them so.” Id. at 1741. Nevertheless, unlike the dissent, Justice Kennedy held that secondary effects zoning ordinances were subject to intermediate scrutiny even though they were content-based. Accordingly, he concluded that “the central holding of Renton is sound: A zoning restriction that is designed to decrease secondary effects and not speech should be subject to intermediate rather than strict scrutiny.” Id.
With respect to Renton, Justice Kennedy distinguished two questions entering into whether an ordinance serves a substantial government interest under Ren-ton: (1) “what proposition does a city need to advance in order to sustain a secondary effects ordinance?”, id. at 1741; and (2) “how much evidence is required to support the proposition?” Id. As Justice Kennedy saw it, the plurality gave the correct answer to the second question, but skipped the first, to which more attention must be paid. To justify a content-based zoning ordinance, he argued, “a city must advance some basis to show that its regulation has the purpose and effect of suppressing secondary effects, while leaving the quantity and accessibility of speech substantially intact.” Id. at 1742. The key issue, in other words, is “how speech will fare” under the ordinance:
“[T]he necessary rationale for applying intermediate scrutiny is the promise that zoning ordinances like this one may reduce the costs of secondary effects without substantially reducing speech. For this reason, it does not suffice to say that inconvenience will reduce demand and fewer patrons will lead to fewer secondary effects.... It is no trick to reduce secondary effects by reducing speech or its audience; but a city may not attack secondary effects indirectly by attacking speech.”
Id.
Turning to the second question, Justice Kennedy agreed with the plurality that “very little evidence” was required of a
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municipality to support the claim that its ordinance serves to reduce secondary effects without substantially reducing speech.
Id.
at 1743. In this case, Los Angeles could reasonably conclude based on its 1977 study that preventing multiple adult businesses from operating under one roof was “reasonably likely to cause a substantial reduction in secondary effects while reducing speech very little.”
Id.
Justice Kennedy acknowledged that “[i]f these assumptions can be proved unsound at trial, then the [Los Angeles] ordinance might not withstand intermediate scrutiny.”
Id.
Nonetheless, he concluded that these considerations were sufficient to determine that the ordinance was not facially invalid and should survive a motion for summary judgment. Id.' Because he concurred in the judgment of the Court on the narrowest grounds, Justice Kennedy’s concurrence represents the Court’s holding in
Alameda Books
under
Marks. See, e.g., Ben’s Bar, Inc. v. Village of Somerset,
8. Two Types of Regulation: Zoning Ordinances and Public Nudity Ordinances
Based on the foregoing, we conclude that while the Supreme Court has utilized closely related, and at times overlapping, analytical frameworks to evaluate adult entertainment zoning ordinances, on the one hand, and public nudity ordinances, on the other, these two types of regulatory action, both of which may target the perceived “secondary effects” of adult entertainment, must be distinguished and evaluated separately. Zoning ordinances regulating the conditions under which adult entertainment businesses may operate should be evaluated under the standards for time, place, and manner regulations set forth in
Renton
and reaffirmed in
Alameda Books.
Accordingly, a reviewing court must perform a three-part analysis to determine whether the zoning ordinance violates the First Amendment: first, the court must determine whether the ordinance constitutes an invalid total ban or merely a time, place, and manner regulation; second, if the ordinance is determined to be a time, place, and manner regulation, the court must decide whether the ordinance should be subject to strict or intermediate scrutiny; and third, if the ordinance is held to be subject to intermediate scrutiny, the court must determine whether it is designed to serve a substantial government interest and allows for reasonable alternative channels of communication.
Renton,
By contrast, public nudity ordinances, insofar as they are content-neutral, should be evaluated under the four-part test for expressive conduct set forth in
O’Brien
and utilized by the Court in
Barnes
and
Pap’s A.M.
According to this test, public nudity ordinances that incidentally impact protected expression should be upheld if they (1) are within the constitutional power of the government to enact; (2) further a substantial governmental interest; (3) are unrelated to the suppression of free expression; and (4) restrict First Amendment freedoms no greater than necessary to further the government’s interest.
O’Brien,
The significance of
Alameda Books
is that it clarifies how the court is to interpret the third step of the
Renton
analysis as well as the second prong of the
O’Brien
test, which are, to a certain extent, virtually indistinguishable. In deciding whether a given ordinance “is designed
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to serve” (Renton) or “furthers”
{O’Brien)
the government’s alleged interest in combating the negative secondary effects associated with adult entertainment, the standard we apply is the one described in
Renton
and utilized in
Barnes, Pap’s, A.M.,
and
Alameda Books.
According to this standard, the government need not conduct local studies or produce evidence independent of that already generated by other municipalities to demonstrate the efficacy of its chosen remedy, “so long as whatever evidence [it] relies upon is reasonably believed to be relevant to the problem that [it] addresses.’”
Pap’s, A.M.,
Having summarized these precedents, we turn now to their application to the two ordinances before us.
B. Ordinance 98-4,6
Ordinance 98-46 is not an ordinance directly regulating expressive conduct, but a zoning ordinance that imposes various physical requirements on “all adult dancing establishments” in Manatee County, including prohibiting private rooms, setting minimum levels of lighting, and requiring both an entrance room or lobby and an additional room of at least 1,000 square feet in size. The ordinance also allows the County Sheriff to search the premises of such businesses without a warrant. Because these regulations apply only to those businesses purveying a form of sexually explicit speech, they trigger First Amendment scrutiny under the line of zoning cases beginning with
Young
and
Schad
and culminating in
Renton
and
Alameda Books.
Hence a reviewing court must ask (1) whether Ordinance 98^46 constitutes a total ban, which would be impermissible, or merely a time, place and manner regulation; (2) whether, if it is a time, place, and manner regulation, Ordinance 98^46 should be subject to strict or intermediate scrutiny;
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and (3) whether, if Or
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dinance 98-46 is held to be subject to intermediate scrutiny, it is designed to serve a substantial government interest and allows for reasonable alternative channels of communication.
Alameda Books,
Under this Court’s precedent, we must apply this third step by asking whether Ordinance 98-46 is “narrowly tailored” to serve the government interest at issue and allows for reasonable alternative avenues of expression.
See International Eateries of America, Inc. v. Broward County, Fla.,
In this case, it is unnecessary to perform the first two steps of the
Renton
analysis, because even if we were to decide that Ordinance 98-46 is a valid time, place, and manner regulation that is properly subject to intermediate scrutiny, the record reveals that the Manatee County Board of County Commissioners, when enacting Ordinance 98-46, failed to rely on any evidence whatsoever that might support the conclusion that the ordinance was narrowly tailored to serve the County’s interest in combating secondary effects.
Renton
stands in part for the proposition that a municipality enacting a zoning ordinance targeting secondary effects must rely upon evidence it reasonably believes to be relevant for this purpose
at the time of enactment.
This is the clear implication of the Court’s holding that “[t]he First Amendment does not require a city,
before enacting such an ordinance,
to conduct new studies or produce evidence independent of that already generated by other cities,
so long as whatever evidence the city relies upon is reasonably believed to be relevant to the problem that the city addresses.” Renton,
*1267
Manatee County argues that it “was not required to develop a specific localized evi-dentiary record supporting” Ordinance 98-46 and could reasonably “rely on the evi-dentiary foundation set forth in prior cases” such as
Barnes
and
Renton.
Brief for Appellee, at 20. However, these-statements, though accurate, do not validate the County’s contention that Ordinance 98-46 withstands intermediate scrutiny. This Court has held that
Renton
requires at least
some
pre-enactment evidence.
See, e.g., Ranch House v. Amerson,
In rejecting Appellants’ constitutional challenge, the District Court expressly considered “the evidence presented to the Board at the time it enacted” Ordinances 98-46 and 99-18. However, the District Court neglected to treat the two ordinances as distinct in this regard. Instead, the District Court collapsed the two ordinances and their accompanying evidence into a single analysis. While we agree with the District Court that the County has met its initial burden under Renton to rely upon evidence it “reasonably believed to be relevant” when adopting Ordinance 99-18, the same cannot be said for Ordinance 98-48, which the record reveals was adopted without any pre-enactment evidence.
In addition to considering the evidence presented to the Board at the time it enacted the ordinances, the District Court also implied a different view toward the issue of pre-enactment evidence. Relying on the Third Circuit’s decision in
Phillips v. Borough of Keyport,
In sum, although
Renton’s
evidentiary burden for the passage of a secondary effects zoning ordinance is not a rigorous one and the Supreme Court has made plain its intention to give municipalities wide latitude to design and implement solutions to problems caused by adult entertainment without compiling an extensive evidentiary record, see,
e.g., Alameda Books,
C. Ordinance 99-18
In contrast to Ordinance 98-46, Ordinance 99-18 is a general prohibition on public nudity, not a zoning ordinance. The ordinance regulates nudity directly, while impacting the expressive element of nude dancing only incidentally. The Supreme Court has held that this type of government regulation, which “does not target nudity that contains an erotic message,” but rather “bans all public nudity, regardless of whether that nudity is accompanied by expressive activity,” is content-neutral and thus “should be evaluated under the framework set forth in
O’Brien.” Pap’s A.M.,
1. O’Brien’s First and Third Prongs
Ordinance 99-18 easily satisfies the first and third prongs of
O’Brien.
The first
O’Brien
factor is whether the regulation is within the constitutional powers of the government.
O’Brien,
2. O’Brien’s Second Prong
Under
O’Brien’s
second prong, the County must demonstrate that Ordinance 99-18 furthers the County’s substantial interest in preventing secondary effects associated with adult entertainment. To this end, the County may rely upon any evidence that is “reasonably believed to be relevant” to its interest in preventing secondary effects.
Renton,
Here, although Ordinance 99-18 prohibits public nudity across the board and not just nudity occurring in adult entertainment establishments, Manatee County expressly relied on its determination that public nudity “increases incidents of prostitution, sexual assaults and batteries,
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[and] other criminal activity” when it adopted Ordinance 99-18. The County also relied on a report prepared by the Florida Family Association, “Evidence of Secondary Adverse Effects of Sexually Oriented Businesses,” which included testimony from the sheriff of nearby Pinellas County concerning “the proliferation of prostitution, sexual contact and lewd acts that take place in nude dancing establishments in Pinellas County,” and from the Director of Communicable Diseases of the Pinellas County Health Department concerning communicable diseases that “are transmitted by unprotected sexual activity that takes place in [such] establishments.” R.1-30, Tab 9. In
Pap’s AM.,
the Court found that a municipality’s own findings and “reasonable belief that the experience of other jurisdictions is relevant to the problem it is addressing” were a sufficient evidentiary basis.
However, since the Adult Lounges have challenged the sufficiency of the County’s evidence, under
Alameda Books
and
Pap’s AM.
our inquiry does not end here. We must next determine whether the Adult Lounges have managed to “cast direct doubt” on the County’s rationale for Ordinance 99-18.
Alameda Books,
In response to the County’s motion for summary judgment, the Adult Lounges placed into the record a two-volume “Appendix in Support of Peek-A-Boo Lounge and Temptations II’s Opposition to Proposed Manatee County Public Nudity Ordinance [No. 99-18],” which it had previously submitted to the Manatee County Planning Commission during the public hearings the Commission held prior to the adoption of Ordinance 99-18. R.1-30, Tabs 10-11. These materials included satisfactory health and safety inspection reports of plaintiffs’ businesses issued by the Florida Department of Health and the Cedar Hammock Fire Department, R.l-30, Tab 10, at Ex. P, and Tab 11, at Ex. J; incident reports of criminal activity near the Adult Lounges and elsewhere showing lower crime rates near Appellants’ businesses than in surrounding areas, R.l-30, Tab 10, at Ex. Q-S; recent sales and assessment data revealing an increase in property values for property located near Appellants’ businesses, R.l-30, Tab 10, at Ex. M-N, U, and Tab 11, at Ex. K-M; and an award given in 1996 to the Peek-A-Boo Lounge by the Manatee County Sheriff for its “outstanding contribution to the community,” R.l-30, Tab 11, at Ex. C.
In further response to the summary judgment motion, the Adult Lounges also submitted three expert studies specifically addressing local conditions in Manatee County which purported to show that there was no evidence connecting their businesses with negative secondary effects. Dr. Terry A. Danner, Chair of the Department of Criminology at St. Leo University, conducted a study utilizing the County’s own crime statistics that examined the cri-minogenic effects of the Appellant’s specific businesses and found that Appellants businesses did not cause such effects. 19 *1271 Dr. Randy D. Fisher, Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Survey Research Laboratory at the University of Central Florida, prepared a study titled “Evidence for the Adverse Secondary Effects of Adult Entertainment: The Manatee County Record,” which examined the record submitted by the County in support of Ordinance 99-18 and concluded that because “the only statistical data provided [in the record] showed lower rates of crime ... [and] substantial increases in property values, both in the long run and in the shorter run, in the areas around the existing adult businesses,” the specific evidence relating to the Appellants’ businesses contradicted any suggestion that “the two existing adult businesses in Manatee County have ‘adverse secondary effects.’ ” 20 Finally, Mr. Richard Schauseil, a licensed Florida real estate agent, conducted an extensive “Market Study and Report” on the effects of Appellants’ businesses on neighboring properties which found that there were “absolutely no signs of any negative effects on adjoining property values or conditions” resulting from Appellants’ businesses. 21
Taken together, the Adult Lounges argue that this evidence “casts direct doubt” on the County’s alleged rationale in enacting Ordinance 99-18 “by demonstrating that [the County’s] evidence does not support its rationale” and “by furnishing evidence that disputes the [Countyjs factual findings.” Alameda Books, 122 S.Ct. at 1736. Given the record and procedural posture of this case, we are inclined to agree. Although Manatee County met its minimal initial burden under Renton to rely on evidence it reasonably believed to be relevant to addressing the problem of secondary effects, in this case Appellants have successfully cast doubt on the County’s rationale by placing into the record substantial and unanswered factual ehal- *1272 lenges to the County’s findings in the specific areas of crime, decreased property values, aesthetic blight, and other secondary effects.
In
Alameda Books,
the District Court granted summary judgment to the adult businesses challenging the constitutionality of a secondary effects ordinance. The Supreme Court reversed and held that the city had presented sufficient evidence to overcome a facial challenge to that ordinance.
Alameda Books,
Significantly, the County has not attempted to counter the Adult Lounges’ evidence with local studies of its own. We are not dealing, therefore, with a case involving a battle of competing experts. Rather, as the record now stands, we have before us an ordinance adopted only on the basis of speculative findings and outdated, foreign studies whose relevance to local conditions appears questionable in light of current data Appellants have placed in the record suggesting that plaintiffs’ businesses, which have operated continuously in Manatee County for over fifteen years, do not cause secondary effects. Under these circumstances, we cannot credit the County with complying with
Renton’s
narrow tailoring requirement, which requires that a secondary effects ordinance be drawn to affect only that category of business
“shown to produce
the unwanted secondary effects.”
Renton,
We note that the fact that the Adult Lounges have managed, in their “as applied” challenge, to cast doubt on the County’s basis for enacting Ordinance 99-18 does not mean the ordinance could not ultimately survive intermediate scrutiny. Rather, under
Alameda Books,
at this point summary judgment is inappropriate and “the burden shifts back to the municipality to supplement the record with evidence renewing support for a theory that justifies its ordinance.”
Alameda Books,
At trial, in keeping with
Alameda Books’
burden-shifting analysis, the District Court must determine whether the County’s additional evidence “renew[s] support for a theory that justifies its ordinance.”
3. O’Brien’s Fourth Prong
O’Brien’s
fourth prong requires that any incidental restriction on alleged First Amendment freedoms be no greater than is essential to further the government’s interest.
O’Brien,
The question we face is whether the County’s prohibition, which presumably impacts the expressive component of erotic dancing, is no greater than essential to further the County’s interest in preventing secondary effects. In
Pap’s A.M.,
the Court determined that this issue required the balancing of competing interests, and it concluded that a pasties and G-string requirement survived intermediate scrutiny because it “leaves ample capacity to convey the dancer’s erotic message.”
[E]ven if Erie’s public nudity ban has some minimal effect on the erotic message by muting that portion of the expression that occurs when the last stitch is dropped, the dancers at'Kandyland and other such establishments are free to perform wearing pasties and G- *1274 strings. Any effect on the overall expression is de minimis.
Id.; see also id.
at 294,
Applying these considerations to Ordinance 99-18, we think it significant that the Supreme Court has emphasized that local governments ‘“must be allowed a reasonable opportunity to experiment with solutions to admittedly serious problems.’ ”
Id.
at 301,
This concern about the scope of Ordinance 99-18, although raised squarely by the Adult Lounges, has not yet been adequately addressed either by the Defendants or by the District Court. Because of the importance of this issue, we are reluctant to rule without further argument from the parties and findings by the District Court. On remand, therefore, the parties and the District Court should also consider whether Ordinance 99-18 would fail under intermediate scrutiny because it proscribes too much protected expression and fails to preserve “ample capacity to convey the dancer’s erotic message.”
In sum, we hold that the District Court erred by granting summary judgment to the County as to Ordinance 99-18. We therefore reverse the court’s order with respect to this ordinance as well. 24
IV. CONCLUSION
The District Court granted summary judgment to Defendants on all grounds with respect to both Ordinance 98-46 and Ordinance 99-18. For the foregoing reasons, we REVERSE the grant of summary judgment on the Plaintiffs’ First Amendment freedom of expression claims with respect to both ordinances and REMAND *1275 the case to the District Court for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
EDMONDSON, Circuit Judge, concurs in the result.
Notes
. Ordinance 98-46 amended § 2-2.5-59 of the Manatee Code by adding the following provisions (g) through (o).
(g) All adult dancing establishment premises shall have an entrance room or lobby, i.e., the room which is entered from the outside, and sanitary facilities as set forth in subsection 2-2.5-56(f). The entrance room or lobby may be as large or small as the licensee chooses.
(h) All other rooms in adult dance establishment premises must either:
(1) be not less than one thousand square feet in area; or
(2) be clearly marked in letters not less than two inches in height “No Customers or Patrons Allowed.”
(i) Except for sanitary facilities, no doorway or entranceway within any premises shall be locked at any time a customer is anywhere within the premises or at anytime the premises are open to the public unless customers or patrons are prohibited at all times from going into the rooms or areas behind such doorways or entranceways and provided such doors are marked as set forth in paragraph (h)(2) above.
(j) At least one doorway into or out of the adult dancing establishment premises shall be unlocked at anytime a customer is anywhere within an adult dancing establishment premises or at anytime the premises are open to the public.
(k) All rooms open to the public in any adult dancing establishment premises shall be lighted such that the light intensity at every point thirty inches above the floor is not less than one-half foot candle.
(l) The Sheriff shall have access to all rooms at all times any adult dancing establishment premises are open to the public. Premises are irrebuttably presumed to be open at any time a customer is on the premises. This access shall be for inspection purposes only.
(m) No room other than a sanitary facility or room marked as set forth in (h)(2) shall have any dividers or partitions or any other thing in excess of three feet in height which blocks the view of any portion of the room.
(n) Private rooms are prohibited within the adult dancing establishment premises.
(o) No room within the premises shall have its doorway or threshold blocked or obscured by doors, curtains, drapes or any other obstruction unless the room is (1) a sanitary facility, (2) the room is an adult motion picture theater in which movies are shown on a screen, or (3) a room marked as set forth in paragraph (h)(2), hereinabove.
. Ordinance 99-18 defined “Nude” to refer to any person "five years of age or older” who is:
"insufficiently clothed in any manner so that any of the following body parts are not entirely covered with a fully opaque covering: (1) The male or female genitals, ... (2) The male or female pubic area, ... (3) The female Breast ... or (4) The Buttocks.”
The ordinance also contained unusually elaborate definitions of "Breast” and "Buttocks.” Ordinance 99-18 defined "Breast” as:
"A portion of the human female mammary gland (commonly referred to as the female breast) including the nipple and the areola (the darker colored area of the breast surrounding the nipple) and an outside area of such gland wherein such outside area is (i) reasonably compact and contiguous to the areola and (ii) contains at least the nipple and the areola and 1/4 of the outside surface area of such gland.”
The ordinance allowed that "[e]ach female Person may determine which 1/4 or her Breast surface area ... contiguous and containing the nipple and areola is to be covered.” Ordinance 99-18 defined "Buttocks” as:
"The area at the rear of the human body (sometimes referred to as the gluteus maxi-mus) which lies between two imaginary straight lines running parallel to the ground when a person is standing, the first or top such line being 1/2 inch below the top of the vertical cleavage of the nates (i.e., the prominence formed by the muscles running from the back of the hip to the back of the leg) and the second or bottom such line being 1/2 inch above the lowest point of the curvature of the fleshy protuberance (sometimes referred to as the gluteal fold), and between two imaginary straight lines, one on each side of the body (the ‘outside lines’), which outside lines are perpendicular to the ground and to the horizontal lines described about and which perpendicular outside lines pass through the outermost point(s) at which each nate meets the outer side of each leg. Notwithstanding the above, Buttocks shall not include the leg, the hamstring muscle below the gluteal fold, the tensor fasciae latae muscle or any of the above-described portion of the human body that is between either (i) the left inside perpendicular line and the left outside perpendicular line or (ii) the right inside perpendicular line and right outside perpendicular line. For the purpose of the previous sentence, the left inside perpendicular line shall be an imaginary straight line on the left side of the anus (i) that is perpendicular to the ground and to the horizontal lines described about and (ii) that is 1/3 of the distance from the anus to the left outside line, and the right inside perpendicular line shall be an imaginary straight line on the right side of the anus (i) that is perpendicular to the ground and to the horizontal lines described above and (ii) that is 1/3 of the distance from the anus to the right outside line.”
The ordinance summarized this definition by stating: "The above description can generally be described as covering 1/3 of the buttocks centered over the cleavage for the length of the cleavage.”
. 42 U.S.C. § 1983 provides: "Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress. ..."
. The Twenty-first Amendment provides in pertinent part that "[t]he transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.” U.S. Const. amend. XXI, § 2.
.
Doran
does not clearly state whether the town ordinance was a zoning ordinance or a nudity ordinance. The ordinance is described as "Local Law No. 1-1973, an ordinance making it unlawful for bar owners and others to permit waitresses, barmaids, and entertainers to appear in their establishments with breasts uncovered or so thinly draped as to appear uncovered.”
. In
44 Liquormart, Inc. v. Rhode Island,
. The ordinance prohibited the operation of any adult entertainment movie theater within 1000 feet of any two other “regulated” uses (such as adult bookstores, bars, hotels, and cabarets), or within 500 feet of a residential area.
Young,
. The ordinance prohibited any adult movie theater "from locating within 1,000 feet of any residential zone, single or multiple-family dwelling, church, or park, and within one mile of any school,”
. The Rehnquist plurality found each of
O’Brien’s
four conditions was satisfied. First, the public nudity statute was clearly in the State's constitutional power to enact.
Barnes,
. In
Marks v. United States,
. Justice Souter acknowledged that his partial dissent "rests on a demand for an eviden-tiary basis that I failed to make when I concurred in
Barnes.
I should have demanded the evidence then, too ... after many subsequent occasions to think further about the needs of the First Amendment, I have come to believe that a government must toe the mark more carefully than I first insisted.”
Pap’s AM., 529 U.S.
at 316-317,
. In addition to joining the plurality opinion, Justice Scalia wrote separately to emphasize his view that the plurality’s secondary effects analysis was unnecessary because the First Amendment "does not prevent those communities that wish to do so from regulating, or indeed entirely suppressing, the business of pandering sex.” Id. at 1738-39.
. On the basis of these Supreme Court decisions, some federal courts have expressed doubt over whether
Renton
or
O’Brien
should be used to evaluate adult entertainment ordinances and others have decided that the two tests are interchangeable.
See, e.g., LLEH, Inc. v. Wichita County, Texas,
. Although both the Court in
Renton
and the plurality in
Alameda Boolcs
used the labels "content-neutral” and “content-based” to characterize the second step of the
Renton
analysis, they did so in order to determine whether the regulations before them should be subject to intermediate or strict scrutiny.
See Renton,
. Despite an extensive search, the only possible evidentiary basis for Ordinance 98-46 we have been able to locate in the record is a passing reference during the November 24, 1998 public hearing to a similar ordinance enacted by the City of Jacksonville, Florida, “which held up under appeal.” R.1-30, Tab 4. We find this oblique, isolated reference to the ordinance at issue in
Lady J. Lingerie, Inc. v. City of Jacksonville,
. The Third Circuit appears to be an outlier on this issue. Other circuits have also interpreted
Renton
to require at least some pre-enactment evidence.
See, e.g., D.H.L. Associates, Inc. v. O'Gorman,
.
See Alameda Boolcs,
. The Adult Lounges argue that Ordinance 98-46 also violates the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable searches, the Fifth Amendment's protection against invalid takings, the Fourteenth Amendment’s protection against violations of equal protection, and the Contract Clause’s protection against laws impairing the obligation of contracts. Because we sustain the Adult Lounges’ First Amendment challenge to Ordinances 98-46 we decline to address these additional claims at this time.
. The research question posed by the Dan-ner study was "whether or not there existed objective and quantifiable evidence" that Appellants' businesses "have been criminogenic businesses in such a way that their operation has resulted in a significant and sustained increase in crime volumes within the urban areas of their location.” To address *1271 this question, the study utilized local crime statistics for the period 1992-1999 for seven offense types (murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, and motor vehicle theft) that were collected by the Manatee County Sheriff’s office on a grid-by-grid basis for approximately 400 more-or-less uniformly sized geographic grids within the county, including those grids containing the Adult Lounges. Analyzing this data — the only such data available — by a variety of statistical measures, the Danner study concluded that "there was insufficient evidence ... to establish a causal connection between the operation of [the Adult Lounges] and crime volumes’’ in their respective grids and adjoining areas.
. On the basis of this study, which included a comprehensive, document-by-document review of the County's pre-enactment evidence, Dr. Fisher also found that of the nineteen foreign studies contained in the Florida Family Association report-the only set of empirical studies relied upon by the County when it adopted Ordinance 99-18-only two were conducted with “any modicum of appropriate research methodology.” The two exceptions were the Austin report and the Indianapolis report. The former, written in 1986 by the cily of Austin's Office of Land Development Services, utilized "calls to the Austin Police Department from January 1, 1984 through December 31, 1985” and surveys "of [Austin] real estate professionals” as its database. The latter, written in 1984 by the Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development, also consisted only of local data that was collected by that Department from 1978 to 1982. R.1-30, Tab 9, at Ex. N-O.
. The Schauseil study examined real estate sales and permit histories to determine the effects of the Adult Lounges on the market values and economic viability of adjoining commercial properties. The author found steadily appreciating market values and active permit histories for properties adjacent to both of the Adult Lounges, concluding that "the sales record for the two Subject Commercial Areas has shown appreciation ... [t]he vacancy rate and lease rate for lease space and properties offered for sale has shown a stable and viable economic area ... [and] [t]he number of open and viable businesses in each Subject Commercial Area demonstrates strong and stable economic conditions.”
. See supra note 2.
. The County argues that
Cafe 207, Inc. v. St. Johns County,
. The Adult Lounges also contend that Ordinance 99-18 is unconstitutionally overbroad, in that it sweeps within its ambit protected speech of persons not before the Court; and unconstitutionally vague, in that it fails to adequately define its operative phrases, thus leaving persons of common intelligence to guess as to the ordinance’s meaning and differ as to its application. However, since we reverse the District Court's grant of summary judgment with respect to Ordinance 99-18 on independent grounds, we need not decide these issues at this time. For the same reason, we decline to address the Adult Lounges’ additional claims that Ordinance 99-18 violates the Fifth Amendment, the Contract Clause, and various provisions of Florida law.
